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Every paycheck, supply order, and ad campaign either helps your dental practice grow or chips away at the profit you worked hard to earn. The right amount to spend on each depends on your specialty, insurance mix, and location, so the most reliable approach is to measure every category as a share of collections and […]

Owning the building that houses your dental practice can feel like the best of both worlds, until you have to decide what your practice should pay you each month. The short answer is fair market rent, meaning the amount an unrelated tenant would pay for the same space, because charging too much or too little […]

Two dental practices can collect the same amount each year and still sell for very different prices. The difference often comes down to one number that buyers, lenders, and dental support organizations care about most: EBITDA, or earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization. For Pennsylvania dentists, this figure is one of the clearest ways […]

Running a dental practice means juggling patient care, staff management, and a long list of financial decisions, and one strategy many dentists overlook is putting their own children on the payroll. If you have kids who help out around the office, whether that’s filing paperwork, managing social media, or answering phones after school, paying them […]

Two dentists deciding to join forces and open a practice together often picture the upside: shared patients, shared overhead, and a built-in colleague to bounce decisions off of. What gets less attention in that early excitement is the paperwork that determines what happens when one partner wants to work fewer days, retire early, or simply […]

Every dentist wants a busy schedule and a full patient roster, but a packed appointment book does not always translate into a healthy bottom line. Two practices can bring in nearly identical revenue and end the year with very different profits, and the difference almost always comes down to how well overhead is managed. Knowing […]

A DSO offer can arrive at almost any point in a dental career, sometimes solicited and sometimes completely out of the blue, and the number attached to it can make walking away feel unthinkable. But the number on the offer letter is only one piece of a much bigger decision, one that touches your income, […]

Few pieces of mail cause more immediate anxiety for a dental practice owner than a letter from the IRS or Connecticut’s Department of Revenue Services announcing an audit. The instinct to panic is understandable, but an audit is rarely a sign that something has gone terribly wrong, and how a practice responds in the days […]

Most dentists can tell you their production numbers for the month without hesitating, yet ask the same dentist how much of that production actually needs to end up in savings each year, and the answer is usually a shrug. That gap between knowing your revenue and knowing your target is where a lot of otherwise […]

Carrying six figures of student loan debt into a career that also requires you to fund a practice, manage payroll, and build personal wealth is one of the most underappreciated financial pressures in dentistry. According to the American Dental Education Association, the average educational debt for indebted dental school graduates of the Class of 2025 […]